Composers Flashcards

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Nixon in China;
The Death of Klinghoffer
Operas

A

John Coolidge Adams

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The Well­ Tempered Klavier (A); Brandenburg Concertos; Goldberg Variations;
Art of Fugue
Father of several other composers,
master of fugue form
(A) includes a prelude and fugue in every major and minor key

A

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (A) Collected Hungarian folk music;
(A) opera

A

Béla Bartók

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Fifth Symphony (A);
Ninth Symphony “Choral” (B); Third Symphony “Eroica” (C); Sixth Symphony “Pastoral;” Moonlight Sonata;
Kreutzer Sonata;
Für Elise
(A) “Fate knocking at the door” theme; (B)
setting of Friedrich Schiller’s poem “Ode to Joy;” (C)
originally dedicated to Napoleon

A

Wolfgang von Beethoven

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Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy
(A) includes “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” and “March to the Scaffold”

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Hector Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (A); Harold in Italy

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Carmen (A);
The Pearl Fishers
(A) opera;
Escamillo, “Toreador Song,” the aria “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle,” which is also known as “Habanera”

A

Georges Bizet

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7
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The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Death in Venice
Turn of the Screw

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Benjamin Britten

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Lullaby;
German Requiem;
Academic Festival Overture

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Johannes Brahms

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Minute Waltz;
Revolutionary Étude

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Frédéric Chopin

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Rodeo (A);
Appalachian Spring (B);
Fanfare for the Common Man; Lincoln Portrait
(A) ballet;
includes “Hoe­Down”; (B)
ballet; includes a theme based on the Shuaker hymn “Simple Gifts”

A

Aaron Copland

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“Clare de lune;”
La mer;
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Impressionist

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Claude Debussy

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Pomp and Circumstance marches;
Enigma Variations

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Edward Elgar

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13
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HMS Pinafore;
The Pirates of Penzance;
The Mikado
Comic operettas

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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14
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Peer Gynt (A)
(A) includes “In the Hall of the Mountain King,”
“Morning Mood,”
“Solveig’s Song,” and
“Anitra’s Dance”

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Edvard Grieg

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15
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London Symphonies;
Farewell Symphony;
Surprise Symphony
“Father of Symphony”

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Joseph Haydn

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The Planets (A)
Suite including movements “Mars, the Bringer of War,” “Jupiter, the Bringer ofJollity,” and “Venus, the Bringer of Peace”

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Gustav Holst

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Tale of Tsar Saltan (A); Scheherazade
(A) opera; includes “The Flight of the Bumblebee”

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Nikolai Rimsky­ Korsakov

18
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Hungarian Rhapsodies; Transcendental Études; Mephisto Waltzes

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Franz Liszt

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (incidental music) (A);
Scottish Symphony; Reformation Symphony
(A) includes a common wedding march

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Felix Mendelssohn

20
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Symphony of a Thousand; Resurrection Symphony

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Gustav Mahler

21
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(A); Music for the Royal Fireworks;
Water Music;
Zadok the Priest
(A) oratorio that includes “Hallelujah Chorus”

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George Frideric Handel Messiah

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The Magic Flute (A);
Don Giovanni (B);
“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik;” Jupiter Symphony;
Cosi Fan Tutte;
Requiem
(A) opera;
Queen of the Night, who sings the aria “Der Holle Rache,” Sarastro,
Pamina (B) opera; title playboy is dragged to hell by a statue

A

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Pictures at an Exhibition (A); Night on Bald Mountain

Member of the Mighty Handful (Mighty Five) (A)
collection including “The Great Gate of Kiev” and “Promenade”

A

Modest Mussorgsky

24
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Peter and the Wolf;
Cinderella;
Romeo and Juliet

*Ballets

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Sergei Prokofiev

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Dido and Aeneas; The Fairy­ Queen
Henry Purcell
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Madame Butterfly (A); La bohème (B); Tosca; Turandot Operas (A) Cio­Cio San, Lieutenant Pinkerton, the aria "Un bel di" (B) Mimi, Rodolfo, the aria "Quand me'n vo," inspired Rent
Giacomo Puccini
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Boléro
Maurice Ravel
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The Barber of Seville (A); William Tell (Guillaume Tell) (B); The Thieving Magpie Operas; (A) the namesake barber is Figaro, who sings the aria "Largo al factotum" (B) includes the aria "Sous immobile" or "stay still"
Gioachino Rossini
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Carnival of the Animals (A); Danse macabre (A) includes "The Swan" and "Fossils"
Camille Saint­ Saëns
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Trout Quintet; Unfinished Symphony
Franz Schubert
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Finlandia
Jean Sibelius
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Also Sprach Zarathustra; Salome*; Rosenkavalier*; Alpine Symphony *Operas
Richard Strauss
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The Blue Danube Waltz (On the Beautiful Blue Danube); Die Fledermaus "Waltz King"
Johann Strauss the Younger
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The Rite of Spring; Petrushka; The Firebird Ballets
Igor Stravinsky
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1812 Overture; Swan Lake (A); The Nutcracker (B); Romeo and Juliet; Sleeping Beauty; Eugene Onegin; Pathetique Symphony (A) ballet; Odette, Odile, Von Rothbart, Prince Siegfried; (B) ballet; Rat King (Mouse King), Sugar Plum Fairy, Clara
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Aïda (A); La traviata; Rigoletto Operas (A) Aïda (an Ethiopian princess), Radamès, set in Egypt
Giuseppe Verdi
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The Four Seasons (A) (A) set of four concerti from The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. Vivaldi is nicknamed "The Red Priest."
Antonio Vivaldi
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelungs, or The Ring Cycle) (A) (A) four operas: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
Richard Wagner
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Sinfonia Antarctica
Ralph Vaughan Williams